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all you hear are the rusty breezes/
pushing around the weathervane jesus — The Tragically Hip

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. — Russell Simmons

Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me. — Slug

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach. — Damian Marley

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana ... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant

I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem

If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money
Aooow ... — Ol' Dirty Bastard

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump;
I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want. — Aceyalone

Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans ... — Dana Gould

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. — Lindsey Stirling

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. — Cornel West

I lean up to kiss Turner's moist lips, but he pulls back and smirks down at me, touching the bare skin on my hip with gentle fingers. — C.M. Stunich

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast. — Sari Botton

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop. — Vanilla Ice

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe. — Zendaya

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me,
Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey. — Heavy D

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat. — Donnie Lewis

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice. — LeCrae

Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery. — Andy Kindler

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s. — Drew

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up. — Michael Rapaport

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead? — Mos Def

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
We got to fight the powers that be! — Chuck D

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? — Will.i.am

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music. — Saul Williams

In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily — Big Pun

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge. — Fat Joe

Dead Prez is playing on the car's stereo, telling me that it's bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ. — Kris Kidd

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist. — Talib Kweli

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at. — Nas

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me. — Eminem

You got to have style, and learn to be original. — KRS-One

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on. — Snoop Dogg

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah

I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop. — Cath Crowley

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop. — Bumpy Knuckles

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone. — Jay-Z

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. — Dr. Dre

I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC — Stephen King

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do,
When they reminisce over you, my God. — C.L. Smooth

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip. — Jeff Foxworthy

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

My limo driver's white, my attorney black ...
'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac. — Masta Ace

I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt — Mac Miller

Never let no one know how much dough you hold. — The Notorious B.I.G.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. — Afrika Bambaataa

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop. — Obie Trice

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter — Kjiva

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. — Afrojack

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does. — Casey Spooner

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim. — Pharoahe Monch

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. — Tom Petty

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. — Prince

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
2 miles an hour so everybody sees you. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world. — Killer Mike

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. — David Foster Wallace

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music. — Gustav Ejstes

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. — Patti LaBelle

God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes. — Ed O.G.

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics — Common

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz. — Slaine

It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage ...
Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah

Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth. — Lil' Wayne

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor. — Jim Gaffigan

Weird like Murdock,
Thinkin' like Hannibal,
Man like Face,
But I'm wild like B.A. — Styles P

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe's belly. — Jill Shalvis

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. — Emmanuel Jal

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up ...
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. — Tupac Shakur

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody — Lil' Wayne

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot. — George Carlin

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. — Don Cornelius

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life. — Mac Miller

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth. — Rebecca Brooks

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

Only death can cure the hip dilettante. — Gilbert Sorrentino

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z

A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. — J.D. Salinger

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide. — Slimkid3

Why should i expect yes cos everything i get no — Kjiva

I love weed so much I tried to marry juana — Lil' Wayne

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer
Now look at me, I can park in my own arena — Jay-Z

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz. — Talib Kweli

Beef is best served like steak:
Well done, get a gun in ya face. — Pusha T

The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock. — O.C.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. — Luther Campbell

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating. — Bakari Kitwana

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal. — Nas

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term. — Randy Pausch

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. — KRS-One

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait. — Kanye West

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. — Nikki Giovanni